Upon hearing this, Qin Yu paused and looked to the side.
Like a curtain of shadow, it drifted through the woods, enveloping the lush forest.
The next moment, Qin Yu suddenly turned her head.
"Captain, the portal has appeared!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the previously noisy woodland fell silent.
Three pairs of eyes turned towards them.
"Do you know roughly where it is?" Shen Heng asked Qin Yu, as if he had just found out.
"Hmm... there!" Qin Yu sensed it and pointed in a certain direction.
Shen Heng looked over there.
First the eyes, then the ears, and finally the sound waves.
He quickly looked away.
In his mind, a void that had not appeared during the past two days of exploration appeared on the newly constructed map.
"Lord Shen Heng, how is it? Have you found the teleportation portal?" Stone asked curiously.
"Yes, there's an undetectable gap about five kilometers away!" Shen Heng replied calmly, his attention still mainly focused on the void in his mind.
"Huh? A gap?" Stone tilted his head, his gaze somewhat puzzled, and asked again, "Is that a portal?"
Beside it, the Two-Horned Lizard glanced at the Stone with disdain.
Is there even a question?
They had just spoken over there when they discovered something amiss here!
Without a doubt, it definitely is. The reason it wasn't directly called a portal is simply because this human was too cautious!
You can't even notice this...
Ha, what a fool!
Then, with a glimmer of hope, it looked at the human.
Hmm, it would be best if something unusual happened later, so I could escape!
Please!!
Shen Heng glanced at the Two-Horned Lizard seemingly casually, then looked at the Stone and said:
"I can't be sure without seeing it with my own eyes, but based on Qin Yu's reconnaissance efforts, it should be!"
Upon hearing this, Stone nodded as if he had just realized something.
Shen Heng then turned his gaze to Qin Yu.
"You've come over?"
"Mm." Qin Yu nodded.
A moment later, a gigantic figure carrying two tiny figures, and dragging a figure that was slightly smaller than itself, landed on the ground.
What appeared before them was a relatively short teleportation portal standing in mid-air.
The figures paused briefly before continuing forward.
The light and shadow flickered.
A moment later, several figures reappeared on the newly formed ground.
Then, slightly stunned, he looked at the scene before him.
A magnificent white palace stood silently on the grassland, from which a blinding white beam of light shot straight upwards from its center...
"Uh... Lord Shen Heng, what is this?"
A questioning voice arose.
Shen Heng refocused his attention.
The Stone was staring at him with wide eyes, its face filled with confusion and bewilderment.
It was indeed very confused; the thing looked like a human-made structure, but its size couldn't possibly be human-made.
"I'm not entirely sure, but it's probably the palace of some kind of Calamity Beast!"
Shen Heng gave a simple reply, then looked at Qin Yu and the Two-Horned Lizard.
Their faces also showed some surprise, but compared to Stone's confusion, they were more astonished.
Stunned by this palace, why was it here?
Well, on the surface, Qin Yu probably doesn't know more than I do. I'll ask her later... Shen Heng pondered for a moment, then focused his gaze on the Two-Horned Lizard.
He raised his hand and touched the head of the Two-Horned Lizard below, indicating that he was talking to it.
Do you know why this palace is located inside?
"Uh, I don't know. The only information I have about this palace is what I told you when you captured me, Lord Shen Heng." The Two-Horned Lizard looked up.
Shen Heng nodded slightly, his gaze still fixed on the Two-Horned Lizard's face.
It's probably that story where you trick it into thinking the guardian at the palace entrance is Dragon Beast, not the Lion King; then, based on the Lion King's dialogue, you deduce that a sapling of the World Tree might be imprisoned inside, but you claim to know nothing about it...
"Uh, why is this human staring at me like that? Does he think I don't know anything and am useless?"
The Two-Horned Lizard looked at Shen Heng, who had been watching it intently, with some concern.
This one incident might not do much to it, but if it continues like this and we know nothing about it, it could become increasingly dangerous.
Thinking of this, it quickly began to ponder.
Suddenly, his eyes lit up and he said:
"However, Lord Shen Heng, I have a guess!"
"What guess?" Shen Heng asked, his gaze sharpening once more.
Beside him, Qin Yu also looked towards the Two-Horned Lizard.
"The spaces we passed through earlier were most likely the original spaces inside this palace that were blown up! Since the spaces inside were blown up, could the original Erosion Zone have been squeezed out, and since the palace had nowhere to land, it ended up randomly landing here!" The Two-Horned Lizard said, expressing its speculation.
"What will be inside that door?" Shen Heng looked up at the palace in the distance.
The entrance was Distortion, just as it had been three months ago.
"Uh... I don't know!" the Two-Horned Lizard replied somewhat awkwardly.
Shen Heng nodded slightly, his gaze showing no surprise.
Based on the information we have so far, this palace is of very high standard, only at the Fifth Tier. It was only after entering the Erosion Zone that it broke through to the Fifth Tier, so it's quite normal that we don't know about it.
"Or perhaps it's someone else." A faint, emotionless voice sounded in my ear.
Shen Heng glanced over to the side.
Qin Yu spoke in a low voice,
"Perhaps, this palace is actually just an entrance and exit!"
"Outside, it serves as an entrance, allowing creatures to enter the palace from the outside—the spaces we've experienced during this time."
"And while inside, the palace becomes an exit, allowing us to go from inside to outside."
"Outside, that is, the Erosion Zone?" Shen Heng asked after thinking for a moment.
"Under normal circumstances, that's possible, but at the time, we were caught in the explosion within the palace, not through normal means. In other words, even if this conjecture is true, the space outside might not be the normal space anymore!" Qin Yu said.
Shen Heng nodded slightly.
It's a bit strange that a palace has doors that lead both inside and outside.
But the same palace appearing here out of nowhere is already strange.
Below, the Two-Horned Lizard silently nodded in its heart as well.
This guess does seem to make some sense!
Moreover, it also explained the question it couldn't explain earlier: where did the gate of that palace lead?
But my guess wasn't wrong, was it?
Yes, that's right, that's exactly it!